Monday links: Wondering why our tough guy has hands made of glass edition

… because he slew-footed Rich Peverley. Let’s compare and contrast the two players, huh?

And no, I’m not being bitchy about the fact that Ovie didn’t get suspended, but he did it the last minute and a half of the game, because he was frustrated – he wasn’t on the scoresheet all night, and he has a nasty habit of skating around and hunting down our players when he’s pissy – one game last season he left his feet during about 4 hits, and not a word was said.

Try to defend it all you want, but there’s no standard for discipline. Rob Scuderi pulled the same thing on Chimera last night that Ott did to BJ, and I don’t think anything’s going to happen to him – hell, Chimera got a 10 minute instigator penalty for going after him just like Crombeen did. The difference there was the fact that Chimera hit his head on the ice, was out for a few seconds, and cut his face open. Discipline in the league is a total joke.

Chimera is lucky he didn’t serious mess up his neck..the video is scary.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yIav-Su5-bs

I look at it this way, we still are 4-4-1, could be a LOT worse and this team will rebound.
On a happier note (and more of the reason I’m posting), just got back from the Doc’s, the sonogram is showing a boy for us! Future Blue in 2029 perhaps?

So I know the game on Saturday SUCKED.
but . . .
In the third period, we had 33 PIM’s thrown at us, dirty hits, injured players and we still out shot Dallas 13-10. If we had any focus by that point, and Turco’s confidence had not been threw the roof. The score could look a lot different.
Focus comes easier once you’ve been caught out once (and when a teammate is no longer unexpectedly in the hospital) and with focus comes goals, and with goals comes the tearing down of a goalies confidence.

Konger has a boxer’s fracture in the right bomb. Those don’t ever heal good enough to keep punching other’s in the melon or helmet. We got problems in the HW fighter dept. CAM is a great middle HW but we sure need a good HW for the battlehjip brawls.